Daring Bakers: Chocolate Pavlova

The June 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Dawn of Doable and Delicious. Dawn challenged the Daring Bakers’ to make Chocolate Pavlovas and Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse. The challenge recipe is based on a recipe from the book Chocolate Epiphany by Francois Payard.
At first glance, it looks like it is something that will take forever [...]

Dressy Chocolate Loaf Cake

Amy of Amy Ruth Bakes chose this amazing recipe which can be found on pages 286 and 287 of Dorie Greenspan’s book  Baking: From My Home to Yours for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie. The cake has all that chocolatey goodness and is a little bit decadent.  [...]

Raisin Swirl Bread

If you want to make this recipe chosen by Susan of Food.Baby for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie, check pages 59 and 60 of Dorie Greenspan’s book  Baking: From My Home to Yours. I made two versions, neither one used raisins.  One loaf was filled with walnuts and the other [...]